Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 24
“Now,” said she, “I will get my son a good supper,” and again she repeated the process.
Who acts: priest · What happens: say, get, repeat · To what, where: good supper, son, process · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 supper | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 supper | amod |
| 16 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 repeated | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 repeated | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 repeated | nsubj |
| 22 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 process | det |
| 24 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 repeated | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | priest | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | future | priest | a good supper | my son | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent son=Beneficiary supper=Theme | |||
| 3 | repeat | past | priest | the process | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent process=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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